How to edit a string via slice

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Function fiddle:String(orgstring:String)
  Local modstring:String=orgstring

  modstring[4]=byte(100)   'How the write to a sliced string?

  Return modstring
  End Function

'main program
stringy:String="something"
Print stringy
stringy=fiddle(stringy)
Print stringy
End